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Mandriva Update for expat MDVSA-2009:316-3 (expat)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Mandrake Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

Check for the Version of expat

Insight

Insight

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in expat: The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720 (CVE-2009-3560). Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers This update provides a solution to these vulnerabilities. Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers. Update: The previous (MDVSA-2009:316-2) updates provided packages for 2008.0/2009.0/2009.1/2010.0/mes5 that did not have an increased release number which prevented the packages from hitting the mirrors.

Affected Software

Affected Software

expat on Mandriva Linux 2008.0, Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64, Mandriva Linux 2009.0, Mandriva Linux 2009.0/X86_64, Mandriva Linux 2009.1, Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64, Mandriva Linux 2010.0, Mandriva Linux 2010.0/X86_64, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64

Solution

Solution

Please Install the Updated Packages.

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